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Are you planning on traveling this week for your vacation? Bought a gas guzzler instead of an EV because of the time it takes to charge, and chargers were not readily available on your commute or a road trip? Don’t want to get stuck without a charge, or kill a half day recharging your wheels? It looks like with the release of the Tesla Model 3 it will address most of these items such as:

Tesla Supercharger provides up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes.

Relatively Affordable – 35k

But how wide spread are the charging stations, and what could be done as a catalyst to rapidly improve EV charging coverage? We can look at EV charging coverage, US map like we do for cellular coverage (and range). One possibility is to tack on a rider to federal funding requiring states that use federal funding for their highways implement EV Charging Stations at EVERY rest stop along the road.

However, there are a vast array of EV Charging Stations on the market. Although adoption across the US is currently sporadic, there are several brands/standards of EV Charging Mechanisms

A heterogenous mix of N EV chargers per rest stop / station, may allow for a diverse set of solutions.

Each state may declare N companies to install, maintain, and periodic upgrades for each EV Charging Station. Each rest stop / station can be awarded to separate contractors, or clustered

The ‘bid winning’ companies per state responsible for the rest station EV chargers must perform ongoing evaluations of EV charging station adoption, and use quantifiable data for upgrading solutions, after N period of time.

Stakeholders to Gain from Expansion of EV Charging Stations across the United States of America.

Finally, is there really a “lack” of EV Charging Stations across the United States? Here is a map from the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) list of charging stations.